Guangzhou East Tower

Guangzhou East Tower

Guangzhou CTF finance center, with the planning name of Canton East Tower and a total height of 530 meters, was capped on October 28, 2014.

Project introduction

Guangzhou East Tower is directly invested by Chow Tai Fook Group of Hong Kong, with a cost of over 10 billion yuan. It will integrate the functions of super five-star hotel, catering, service apartment, Grade A office building and underground shopping mall. Zheng Jiachun, chairman of the group, said at the capping ceremony that day that the 530 meter height was not intended to be compared with the West Tower, but for investment benefit and other considerations, "generally, the higher the floor, the better the landscape, the more attractive it will be to tenants.".

According to the announcement after the acceptance of the plan, the East Tower of Guangzhou has 111 floors above the ground, with a total area of 403984 square meters, and 5 floors underground, with a total area of 104304 square meters. The underground passage connects the underground space of Guangzhou new central axis in the West.

According to the EIA report published in September 2015, Guangzhou East Tower has added cinemas and fitness centers, of which the adjusted area of cinemas is more than 4000 square meters, and an open-air food area has been set up. In addition, the 94th floor of the East Tower is also equipped with a swimming pool and spa, so that the public can experience the feeling of swimming in the air with a height of 500 meters.

In addition to KPMG, Citibank and other global top 500 enterprises, Guangzhou K11 shopping Art Center will also be settled in Guangzhou zhoudafu financial center, bringing the first retail concept of art museum to Guangzhou. Guangzhou K11 is located in a total of 10 floors from the second floor underground to the eighth floor above the ground of East Tower, with a total area of about 70000 square meters. It gathers international top luxury and world-famous designer brands, including brand retail, high-end boutique supermarket and large cinema.

Guangzhou East Tower integrates business, office, high-grade apartment and hotel. The main building is divided into three parts: K11 office is located on 7-66 floors, magnificent service apartment is located on 68-91 floors, and magnificent hotel is located on 93-108 floors. In addition, the East Tower also has annex podiums for building large shopping malls. Among them, Guangzhou K11 shopping Art Center, which is located as the most high-end luxury in Guangzhou, has a total area of about 70000 square meters and 10 floors. It gathers international top luxury goods and world-famous designer brands, and integrates art, entertainment and catering.

Building specifications

[floor area]: 26494 square meters

[building area]: About 370000 square meters above ground

[building height]: 530m

[building floors]: 116 floors

[structure form]: steel concrete structure

[investor]: Chow Tai Fook Group

[Contractor]: the consortium of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. and China Construction Fourth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., each holding 50% of the shares (regardless of the order)

[designer]: Kohn Pedersen fox associates

[construction purpose]: office building + Hotel + apartment

[English name]: CTF Finance Centre

[related information]: East Tower: 50 seconds to the top of Yangcheng, including super five-star hotels, international apartments, Grade A office buildings and shopping malls

Construction process

Bidding

On September 12, 2008, Chow Tai Fook Group became the only one to raise a card in the East Tower bidding field, and won the East Tower Project at the reserve price of 2860 yuan per square meter. In addition to the land price of 1.05 billion yuan, the winner has to pay another 500 million yuan for the development and construction of the underground space of Zhujiang New Town. In fact, the total transaction price of Dongta project has reached 1.55 billion yuan, and the floor land cost has reached 4239 yuan / m2.

Start work

On September 28, 2009, the construction of Guangzhou East Tower officially started. Zhu Xiaodan, member of the Standing Committee of Guangdong provincial Party committee, Secretary of Guangzhou municipal Party committee and director of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress, Zhang Guangning, mayor of Guangzhou, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of Zhou Dafu group, Dongta investor, and chairman of new world China real estate attended the ceremony.

Capping

On October 28, 2014, Guangzhou East Tower held a capping ceremony, and the record of the tallest building in Guangzhou was officially set at 530 meters.

deliver

Guangzhou East Tower was delivered to the tenants in mid July 2016.

Architectural features

Architectural appearance

The top of the tower adopts zigzag design, and forms a sky garden on different floors; the glass curtain wall adopts white clay plate pendant, which can provide natural lighting; the structure adopts ultra-high strength green concrete for the first time, which can reduce the weight of the East Tower and increase the use area at the same time.

The top of the building adopts zigzag design to form three open-air viewing platforms: the top platform of the office area at the bottom faces west on the 66th floor to see the setting sun; the top platform of the international apartment area in the middle faces east on the 91st floor to see the sunrise and the East; the five-star Hotel platform with the highest landscape requirements is on the 107th floor to see the sunrise and sunset And enjoy the Pearl River.

Technical features

Elevator.

Guangzhou East Tower is equipped with two of the world's fastest elevators, with a speed of 20 meters per second. The elevator takes only 43 seconds from the first floor to the 95th floor.

lighting

The east tower adopts low-energy LED lighting, the main tower adopts crystal clear and transparent white lighting, creating a dynamic effect of stars flashing in the night sky, and the skirt building adopts white lighting to match the architectural appearance and landscape features.

Surrounding traffic

Metro: Line 3 and line 5 to Zhujiang New Town station; APM line to Huacheng Avenue station.

Bus: No.40, No.90, no.194, No.777, no.778 to Huacheng square (friendship country Jindian) station.

Petronas Twin Towers

On October 17, 2016, the East Tower of Guangzhou (left side of the tower) lights up and has a beautiful night scene. Taking Guangzhou tower as the center line, the East and West towers on both sides of the Pearl River constitute the "Twin Star Tower" of Guangzhou, forming a shocking visual pattern. Now that the East Tower is completed, the bright night view of Guangzhou Pearl River New Town, one of China's three major CBD, is finally "complete".

Address: f2-4 project of Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou

Longitude: 113.32740454692

Latitude: 23.120047770745

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